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This report offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community... read more
Regional Government of Ethiopia representative visits North America and is interviewed by Sagal Radio on January 31, 2011. Listen to audio
This “Lessons Learned” publication summarizes the principles and practices gleaned from the New Routes to Community Health project. Learn about the immigrant health and media... read more
A third-year law student outlines the case for an independent Somaliland. A paper he has written on this topic is also available for download. Listen to audio
The flow of immigrants to the United States has resumed after falling to the lowest level in decades during the recession, a new study finds.... Visit website
In the wake of prostitution charges involving underage Somali girls,
adults are worried about the pressures many girls face in Minneapolis'
Somali community. Minnesota is... read more
Guillermina Castellanos
(Domestic Workers Safety and Dignity Project), Sara Rohde and Mukhtar
Gaaddasaar (Egal Shidad) and Nadia Sol Ireri Unzueta Carrasco (Salud:
Healing Through the... View video
East African immigrants in Atlanta are creating radio and online productions promoting health and cultural competency within their community. Partners are the Office of University-Community... View video
The partners in Minneapolis-St. Paul are using Egal Shidad, a traditional Somali folk character, to broach the topic of mental health. They have made radio... View video
Producer Mukhtar Gaaddasaar takes a look at what young people and parents need to know and do to communicate better with one another and to... View video
This summer, Amanda Plumb, of StoryCorps, visited Sagal Radio Services, where interns Nawal
Abdirahman from Somalia, and Ram Koirala and Tara Powdyal from Nepal
interviewed her about... Listen to audio
Amanda Plumb recounts her visit with the teens who produce the HearMe Today program. She asked them questions and then later, when they visited the... read more
“Across Washington state and throughout the country, increasing numbers
of refugee families — displaced people from war-torn parts of the world
— are confronting homelessness all over... read more
Somalilanders and friends, celebrate the success of Somaliland election, commemorating the newly elected government and promoting democracy in Somaliland and the Horn of Africa. To... Listen to audio
Sagal Radio was pleased to be part of a round table discussion with Dr. Shiferaw Teklemariam, Minister of Federal Affairs of the Ethiopian government. Dr.... Listen to audio
Proponents of repealing the 14th Amendment call them "anchor babies," and a new report says there are a whole lot of them. According to the... Visit website
Egal Shidad videos have played an important role in raising awareness of mental
health among Somalis. The collaboration that guided production resulted
in a film... Visit website
“This 98-page report says that immigrants with mental disabilities are
often unjustifiably detained for years on end, sometimes with no legal
limits. The report documents case after... Visit website
From the Chicago Tribune: NEW YORK — Thousands of mentally disabled immigrants are entangled in deportation proceedings each year with little or no legal help,... Visit website
"These new or updated publications address issues related to how race,
immigration status, and language affect insurance coverage and access
to care for non-citizens." (Source: The Henry... read more
Cheering music from around the world starts off this enjoyable radio program recorded on World Refugee Day 2010. Then you can listen to on-site interviews... Listen to audio
The image of the affluent and white cellphone owner as the prototypical mobile Web user seems to be a mistaken one, according to a report... read more
The New York office of the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services naturalized about 90,000 people last year; the process is far
from simple. (New York Times.... read more
Being an immigrant provides new opportunities, challenges, difficulties, which are all different depending on how you are prepared at an individual level. Those who are... read more
"The Library of America anthology Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing is daunting, weighing in at 724 pages -- however much a hardcover wrapped... Visit website
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This report (PDF 3.8MB) offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community health improvement. Spanish-language version is now available. Una versión en español de este informe esta en la web.
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